[OSM-talk] POI display on osm.org

[Toby Murray]

Neat! I think this is a great feature that makes our data easier for
potential users and editors to see which makes it more obvious that we
are more than just a pretty map.

One thing about tags: You might want to consider hiding some.
Especially well known import related tags. I'm thinking specifically
of the tiger:* tags we have here in the US but there might be others.
They are obviously a formatting nightmare but they are also not really
*our* data so excluding them from such a display might make sense.

http://i.imgur.com/p9amuhk.png

We're working on removing some of them (especially the long "tlid" one
but they're going to be around for a while...

Toby


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Roland Olbricht <roland.olbricht at gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> have you ever been annoyed that Mapnik doesn't render a name for a street or a pub, although you are interested in?
>
> The POI click feature for osm.org now has a public prototype:
> http://overpass.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/
>
> Just click on the map somewhere and all the nearby named items are shown with their tags.
>
> It follows the idea
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Tasks#POI_inspection_tool_on_the_frontpage
>
> Before this moves to the main site, I would like to improve the usability as much as possible. So I'm grateful for all feedback.
>
> For example:
>
> Are there places or zoom levels where interesting points are missing? Or places where you get too much?
>
> Would you like some other formatting, more or less headlines, icons or whatever to easier categorize the results?
>
> Would you like to see something different than the list of tags?
>
> Have you other observations or suggestions? For example, Pawel made some technical observations that will give rise to improved speed for way-bbox queries on future version of Overpass API.
>
> A few details:
>
> You may see three kinds of results. If there are few results, they are shown immediately. If there are more results, they are shown as expandable headlines. If there are no results or way too much results, an error message is shown.
>
> The range depends on the zoom level, compensating for mouse position inaccuracies. It is currently about 20 meters on zoom level 18 and doubles with every zoom level.
>
> As an extra feature, if an element has a tag value starting with "http://", the headline of the element gets a hyperlink to the URL written in this tag value.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roland
>
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